Foul Murder In Iowa

Bellevue, July 8.- Developments made Moiulay in the matter of the death of Miss Mina Keil, who was supposed to have been killed by a savage buil while crossing a lonely pasture field while on hor way to a neighbor's house, at which a ball was to be given on Saturday evening, conclusively proves that the young womim was brutally mnrdered. As mentioned in these dispatches her lifeless body was found Sunday forenoon by a searching party after a quest lasting nearly fourteen hours. The coronar was summoned and a jury worn. It was soon ascertained that there had been no buil in the field or in the immediate neighborhood. Henee the investigation took another direction and the verdict was that the young woman had been ïnurdered by a person or persons unknown. Signs of a Hard StriijTgle. The weapons with which the horrible deed was comniitted were found lying near the body and consisted of a sharp piece of flint and a shattered stick. Both were incrusted with blood and hair, and evidence of a lierce strugglo was to be seen all around. The grass was trodden down and spattered with blood for a radius of thirty feet, and the body itself was lying in pools of clotted blood. There weré seveuteen distinct gashes on the head and hands. There was a long, deep cut on the forehead, one at the back and base of the head and over the left ear a deep g.ish which penetrated the skull to a considerable depth. The other wounds were of less importanee, those on the hands evidently having been received while endeavoring to ward off the blows of the murderer. Tho young lady was of an exceedingly muscular development and must have given her assailant or assailants a hard struggle before she succumbed. A piece of soiled linen was picked up near the body which may be of valúe later on. Had Started for a Party. It is thought to be a piece of a man's shirt and is oovered with blood. It was probably torn out in the struggle. Th.6 young woman left her home about 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon intending to go to a party and dance at the home of a neighbor, Peter Hoff. She was going first to another neighbor's, Joseph Guinthers, where she expected to meet some young friends. In a basket she carried the clothing which she intended to wear at the ball, expeeting to make the chango at the house of her friends, the Guinthers. She also carried a parasol. Both the basket and parasol were found lying a few yards away from her dead body. Her course lay through a lonely pasture in a valley and it was a most suitable spot for the terrible crime which was committed. The place is over a mile from any habitation and is obscured from view in every direction. The assassin evidently laid in wait for his victim, as the stone with which she was killed was brought from a rocky gully some distence away. r'iiuling of the Body. Not arriving at the dance her friends became alarmed and during the evening organized a searching party. The search for her was kept up through the nightand the next day the body was found. She was an exceedingly beautiful girl about 18 years of age, and was the belle of the neighborhood. Her mother, Mrs. Sophia Keil, is a widow and the family reside six miles south of this city. The funeral services were held in the Lutheran churoh in this city Monday afternoon. Pastor Lenz performed the last rites over the murdered girl. There is at present no clew to the assassin. Russell R. Farrell, commissioner and a prominent attorney of this city, has the matter in hand and will push the investigation. An agency at Chicago was telegraphed for bloodhounds, and if these can be obtained they will be put on the trail as soon as possible.